time of its existence, so that's what being part of that collective -- >> so, it's not a new poe really. >> okay, i understand. >> yeah. >> but we did outreach to neighborhoods just by foot and there's more than 40 people in my circuit and we get out and about and work in the community in every regard. we keep up the gardens, what is the gardens? >> esperonza gardens. >> i was wondering if you could please inform me what kind of benefits your neighborhood outreach you feel have brought you? >> i think the big part of it is our business plan of what we do moving forward. we are still considering ourselves just getting into this space right now especially with the turn of events, the slow down of our business, it's been a big part of our plan to have community benefit be part of our business plan, so give back programs, grant programs, upkeep on the gardens, art program. >> with did limited program, i believe that you guys are really good people and you have really good hearts and i'm glad something that is going into shell space that is so community oriented but the idea is to go out and

so upcycling and using what we have is really so important.as you mentioned, you work with many at-risk people to help employ them. yeah, we feel like the best thing that we can do is provide people with a job that pays them a fair and living wage to do this kind of work. there are so many individuals out there who know how to cut and sew and we want to be able to give them jobs and give them the opportunity to make a good living. this is a relatively new business. tell us when this started. so this started, we launched this in march 2012. we're taping this in the end of march-- the end of 2012, excuse me. so, in this short time, tell our viewers the number of customers you've had. we've had more than 3,000 blanket customers in a very short period. that relates to a lot of textiles that you've kept out of dumpsters. it does, and it also tells a story how people have so many t-shirts that they love and have a lot of memories associated with them and they want something to do with them and they want to put them all in one place. this is kind of

>> i believe so, is that true?es, my science advisors, that's why they're here. >> [inaudible]. >> yeah. there are a lot of carcinogens in diesel exhaust, yeah. >> [inaudible]. >> well, you're still seeing an oil that combusts, some of them we know burn more cleanly than others but if it's combusting, you end up with productions of combustion, it may not be better for pollution on the other side, depending on how clean the air burns and that's a theme we end up talking about a fair bit unfortunately is that bio doesn't always mean it's safer, it can, it can definitely mane we're reducing destruction of greenhouse gases but it can still make bad things outs of good ingredients if you know what i mean, another outdoor thing is to reduce your reliance on household pesticides so the active ingredients can be of concern, the pesticide itself, but most pesticide companies done label what are called the inert ingredient, that's the one that's not doing the pest killing per se, they can still really be bad chemicals, endoc

so, so, that's it. i mean, hang this up. isn't that beautiful? >> yes, it is beautiful. >> and just make sure, you know, your theme--so, get, you know, the right ribbon to go with the right wreath and. >> ok. >> very, very easy. >> a great tip for hanging wreaths or ornaments are suction cup hooks, because it's only temporary, so you don't want to wreck your walls with nails or 2-sided tape, and it's really easy. you just stick it on, pull down on the--on the hook, and then, hang your wreath. that simple. >> so, i think a romantic theme--even if you do a miniature tree or--or one huge tree just around romance. >> welcome back to "downright domestic," the lifestyle list show. the holidays are quickly approaching. do you need some decorating advice? well, don't worry, because we've got lots with our list of the 10 steps to make your home holiday ready. number 1, decorating your table. number 2, tree selection. number 3, a romantic theme. number 4, a peppermint theme. debbie, one of my favorite themes at christmas are the candy canes, and i hear tha

this will be of course whole self eft so there is trying to get rid of the tax exemption so let's look back at the history of how this tax exemption came about under a one nine hundred thirty four law congress exempted credit unions from federal income taxes as long as they were nonprofit businesses organized without capital stock and operated for the benefit of their members so since the collapse now everybody's been moving their money to credit unions the bank lobbyists have lobbied congress and what they're saying is that is they're no longer small little credit unions organized around one business or one group of people. two hundred of them now have more than a billion dollars in assets they say for example now to put that into context of course j.p. morgan has over two trillion dollars in assets more knows how many trillions are quadrillions and liabilities but they also lost nine billion on the london whale in the course of weeks so here are these they're complaining that two hundred of these credit unions have more than a billion dollars in assets j.p. morgan's balance sheet is

so contempuous. an we've really not done much about fox news at all this summer. that day, i was so a anything. >> you were unloading. >> from the morning meetings. those morning meetings you are just taking in poison and trying to find a way to distell that into something which is funny and palatable or at leith cathartic at the end of the day. >> why haven't you done -- >> it's been so fast. like there's been-- there's been so many other things of substance to talk about. >> does it seem like just yesterday you started this. >> yeah, it does, actually. it's gone quick. it's gone very fast. because certainly looking-- the first day that this is weird, isn't it? looking at september, i felt that's a long way away. and now we're not last week and i can't even believe it's gone so fast. >> rose: and you can't imagine how it's going to change your life? >> no, no. unless-- now i'm-- now you're making me nervous. have i really not addressed this inny >> rose: no, no, no. it's so -- did -- it is, by all,

so, so, he can now make decisions more swiftly. there isn't a board that has to debate it and have deeper conversations around it, that it actually -- and he's following a plan. so, recommendations have been put forward about how to fix many of these issues. so, the difference between what he had before and where he is now i think is different. >> let's talk about specifics. what is it that the special trustee wanted to do before that did not happen? >> so, that -- that's something that dr. arduella is going to have to take into consideration. but he wasn't -- the supervisor wasn't put there to say, this is what you need to do. he was there to guide the trustees on what it is that needed to be done and that didn't unfortunately -- despite all of the great work and amount of work that was accomplished, it wasn't enough. >> what i hear from the trustees and maybe they can speak to this when they have an opportunity to say something, is that they basically gave him carte blanche, that it was sort of like we're going to follow your gui

some children and then they went to the fed and they got so no credit for that so you have to add on a new piece here and this is j.p. morgan blames the london whale struthers is the that's the bubble of the ring is based on so years occur you hear this rollout is either going to get all that money and they're going to replace it on their balance sheets and there's just me going to exclude you from wall street because if this is your go to the phone of the stocks you're going to sixty billion and money it's a perfectly sound institution there's nothing risky about j.p. morgan's balance sheet is very sound you can tell just by looking at the bells there's no risk here there's no problems there. that's well so these bank lobbyists have been of course they own the congress now this is by the way one of the reasons why teddy roosevelt went after the trusts he thought they had too much power over politicians and he also thought the wealth and income gap was very dangerous and he was afraid of revolution so this is why he went after these trusts and bust them up we have a very remarkably s

our salary budget is about 4 million. >> so, i don't know -- so, what was your initial reaction when you saw the material weakness from the suggestions from the audit? >> well, actually, at the time this audit came about, i was with the controller's office where i was a division director. and, so, i guess to some degree i have a response to the material weakness. in january, i was invited and asked to take an assignment with the successor agency specifically to address the situation. and as what had already been in place was the transition -- the former redevelopment agency used to use its own financial system that was separate from the city's system, a system called j.d. edwards. and the capacity to really use that system had declined, especially with the loss of staffing. and as part of the dissolution, there was a decision made to fold the accounting into the city's famous accounting system, which both had better internal controls and that was a very important thing, and also medthctionv ~ meant there would be many more people to make sure [speaker not understood]. so, that proces

to run an economy so because all these voters are so leveraged they also as a result we get a combination of regulatory measures local stimulus plans subsidies to property lending a bias towards inflation that promote housing bubbles so of course this is obviously what we see in the u.k. in the us the economies are recovering because of the housing bust but bubble being reengineered in the us that i was just reading that how is house prices are up twelve and a half percent in the last little let's put this in context any number you put on the house price appreciation that there is another number that's greater that is the increase in debt the g.d.p. in the u.k. was just reported at point six percent the amount of debt was triple that the growth in debt the amount of wages however is completely stagnant the amount of debt in the u.k. is now projected to double to over four trillion pounds in debt over the next three years so yes you can create a a little lesion of wealth by pumping a ponzi scheme was born is doing at the expense of taking the bank of england balance sheet and making it int

are thanks so much for explaining all of that in the car as a reporter thank you rags. stay tuned for the second half all lot more since. he. says. they all see themselves as dying swans in their dreams. but only one of the cells will ever make it to the top. they're ready to give their lives for the chance to die on stage if only once. not even broken wing ditto. for generations at the madrid ski theatre ballet sweat and tears. a mission. accreditation free transport chargers free. range month free. free studio time free. download free blog counseling videos for your media projects a free media old dog a hearty dog tom. welcome back to the kaiser report time out of turn to john butler author of the golden revolution and the m four a report investment newsletter john is a former managing director of lehman brothers and do it your bank john welcome back to the kaiser report thank you max right john you were a former bond bug turned to gold in revolution of course refers to gold but let's talk about bonds where does this rise in the ten year bond sovereign debt was a sign

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so bad for them. it's bad for society. and you can do things. look at what we've done in this country with cigarettes. there's still people who are smoking them, but much, much less than before because we've had a fact-based campaign -- not just advertising, but a campaign -- to persuade people not to smoke. i remember the days when they had the advertisements, i'd walk a mile for a cap -- camel, and a pretty girl saying blow some my way with the smoke and all those kinds of things. well, now, if you see somebody smoking, you think there's something wrong with them. don't they understand they're killing themselves? so the whole steve's changed. -- atmosphere's changed. that can happen. and all kinds of things can be done beyond what we're doing. but we're spending gigantic amounts of money on this war, and one of the results of it is huge violence in other countries. in mexico over the last five or six years, some 50, 60,000 people have been killed. that's more than our wars in afghanistan and iraq. s

so and so those are the businesses we're concerned with. we want to make sure they don't muscle aside the locally operated businesses that we want to attract. we ladder to answering any questions i have. we'll be making some amendments today during land use to make sure it's specific about the kind of establishments we want to address. we had a number of small business owners and folks we reached out that are here today but they're all at land use that unfortunately conflicted with this meeting >> thank you commissioner. >> from what i've beenrd about it is limited. >> correct. >> to was it going on there, you know, it is mid market. it's going to a renaissance big time renaissance. i have no problem supporting this as it is and the types of uses that are going on there. i understand there - this is not part of the citywide formula retail ban this is exempt >> correct. >> roadway formula retail you can open up shop as a matter of right. >>right. >> i want to thank supervisor kim for being pro-active and seeing little opportunity to protect

and if so, why? >> i think the monoscher "libertarian" has been stretched that the point to cover a lot of different differing political views. i think a lot of people in silicon valley are independent thinkers and the idealistic -- >> rose: they want to be left alone the do their thing. >> they want to be allowed their own decision making. i don't mind taxes. in fact, i think taxation and redistribution of wealth is actually a good idea because we live in an organized society and we need to better those that are less fortunate and make sure the roads are relatively well functioning and we need to have law enforcement. >> rose: and national security. >> absolutely. so taxes pay for that. i have relatively low trust in some of my local politicians, although most recently perhaps to spend my taxes on things that really do matter. and so this lack of inherent trust of the local or broader political establishment is probably the most defining most common feature of silicon valley quote/unquote libertaria

so does safeway. safeway sponsors one of our litter programs where they -- we pay nonprofit groups to go in the community, pick garbage for 16 weeks during the summer, and they pay those. safeway as well as many other groups pay those volunteers. so, i mean crylon, like you said, it's a huge company going to head off. you're probably not going to have the same success as somehow working with local businesses. that would be the only thing i could suggest. but it's worth a try because i think the more persistent you are -- i think a couple of them finally gave us money because rona in particular because they just didn't want to hear from me any more. [laughter] >> all right, thank you. (applause) >> i don't know why the product is still on the shelf. personally it's one of the most toxic products out there. i don't know if any of you have had ever deployed spray cans on walls and just stood there. how do you dispose of it? there are so many environmental issues it's unbelievable. and as communities, if

so i would see -- >> rose: so that there would be a natural -- >> so that there would be a natural intimacy wouldn't be "good morning forest. what side of the bed are you on?" yes. and so forest, you know, would come in and depending upon what was going on that day with his character sometimes he would be three different ages in one day. >> rose: that's why the performance -- >> it's un-- it's extraordinary. and i wouldn't want to bother him. i'd see he'd already gone in, he's in that space. so i would just go over and rub his shoulder and sometimes i'd be standing outside the trailer waiting for him to get done. i'd say somebody let me know when forest is almost done. he'd be standing there and he'd say "what are you doing here?" and i'd say "i just want to walk with you to the set. " and i'd take his hand. >> rose: did you know this was happening to you, forvest? (laughs) >> it was magical. sometimes it was timeless just walking hand in hand. it just felt like -- >> part of the substory in the film itself-- and that's why i end the music at the end. everybody wanted me to end with somethi

it's so powerful. >> it's so amazing. i had six of my girls at the screening -- >> rose: when you say girls you mean -- >> i mean my girls from south africa -- >>. >> rose: who are entering american colleges. >> and they -- you know, are not students of american history. they know about the civil rights movement and all that stuff and so last night or actually 1:00 this morning we were having discussions about the trainings and i was explaining to them that all of these kids who -- that that was really real in order to have the ability not to fight back and not to go against you're -- because if somebody spits on you there's a visceral reaction that you want to knock that person out but to go through the non-violence training, to take it, because we had the conversation this moshing with the girls about what would have happened had one of those people hit a white person or spit back. >> holy cow. >> holy cow. i mean, all hell would have broken loose. it would have been a bloodbath for sure. that's what's so extraordinary.

because he believed there so that's how it stars and the reason i can think so there is so what kind of connection did he have with him i mean was there any sort of thing that would have . such a harsh interrogation. no there is no connection there when they were friends even they were in boston they just up and to the same team they were same origin from the chain and just as how they know each other. so you said that there you actually have proof that he's not connected to the bombings at all what is the force. he had his knee surgery not a long time ago was the end of march and. when he was actually a visiting doctor so he was still in his car and she was he had a huge surgery on his knee and she could in the room she was limping. killed him. still had involvement remotely even though he wasn't actually in boston at the time . you know he did he does not have any foreign connection. he never spoke with him the only day when he spoke with him after his surgery just call him for a few minutes and ask him how he's doing after the surgery that's just around i'm curious how he's doing.

so should mr. there be a reverse all that would be the ability to reconsider determination >> i think ms. jones. i'm really trying to get a handle on the modification. it's relevant to me there are many projects there's an original project it is bulk out to the biggest size and then it's worked with the department and the neighbors may not agree and the sequa determination has been issued and the neighbors are step up still upset and now i'm making my project smaller i've eliminated parking spaces so the review is a change but, of course, you're now having less environmental impact. so it seems that what may be kim's take on this this still could be appealed and now - >> in the ordinance as it passed first reading yesterday a substantial modification is defined as an expansion or intense indication. so it didn't wouldn't trigger the need for the new plan >> because i mean mean this says all changes to project scope and this is for projects that have already been approved when there's somewhere alon

so we did not include a condition about noise that we could certainly do so. >> not that i need it, i just want the public to know that there are some conditions that we do just to know what those conditions were and also to include the hours of operation, and to be a contact person and a liaison to the community. >>; is that correct?? >> we, sometimes do include the conditions, and addressing hours of operation, in this case we didn't, there are no hours of operation limits within the rc four district, and as to the liaison, it is not a condition that we applied in this case so that we could certainly add that. >> >>s commissioner moore. >> i would ask the city attorney, there is sometimes a footnote referring or referencing another motion as it were, i would ask the supervisor chiu as to whether or not you were aware that some of the things that are discussed here are not being able to incorporate in the motion. >> and so, commissioners this morning, it did not come up that some of these may not be able to be included in today's conditions. but it sounds like there might be a few th

thank you so much. for all of our community groups for coming in who really help us in resolving these issues, just this morning, when we were discussing one of the issues that has been going since 2009, these groups have never been brought in. we need to utilize these groups and the program and the code enforcement out reach program and the sro collaborativives, both. and they are perfect, at dealing with these human aspects and the issues of the things that get in the way of the resolution. and so, i think that it is a prime example, and the testimony supports it that we need to really use these, and provide more support, funding, person, power, to these organizations for these outstanding notice of violations and the report does focus more on the issues that we do have a problem with and we have a long list of blighted properties, unfortunately, often times there is nobody in them, and so it is harder to deal with, on the one hand, and then on the other hand, it is easier to deal with because you can

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and so on and so on and so on. now lop off the zeroes on either side of the triangle. what you see there is what we've seen before, pascal's triangle. let's say it's your cousin louie's birthday and he's crazy about hats. you're considering a birthday gift of five hats, but you can only afford to buy two, and you can't decide which ones. so the problem is, how many different combinations of two hats are there, and that way you can know how many pairs you have to consider. when we're working with pascal's triangle, we can actually read this information off the triangle. so now what we need to do is go to row 5. and remember, we started numbering the rows by 0, so we actually have to count down six rows to row 5. and again, the columns also start with 0, and we go in to the second column, which actually requires 0, 1, 2, so the third entry. and there it is. the number we find is 10, and that's the right answer. and this number, the number of ways to choose two things out of five things, a mathematician calls "5 choose 2." so 5 choose 2 is equal to 10. pascal didn't inven

>> so is this very common?that a lot of factories subcontract for big labels like walmart without authorization? >> sabina? you're 14? so you started working when you were 13 years old? >> so what's the average age of your workers? >> but we just spoke to a girl who said she's 14. >> walmart told us they don't tolerate child labor in their supply chain - and they're investigating whether this finishing center did any work on walmart products. once we found one finishing house, it wasn't hard to find others. >> what are you making? >> how many buttons do you put on everyday? >> how old are you? >> how long have you been working here? >> shewli, how old are you? >> shewli, do you go to school? >> how much money do you make here, shewli? >> 2,500 take is just 32 dollars a month. >> shewli, you're putting the elastic band into old navy pants? >> it says "old navy" >> old navy >> old navy is owned by gap inc, one of the largest clothing companies in the world. this is where a lot of america's clothes come from - and

so, thank you so much to both of you. (applause) >> we're going to bring lynn and carina up in a brief second. why don't you speak now. that will work, right? but i also wanted on behalf of the department to thank you both of you. lynn, since you've been the lafayette champion a long time, there is your official lafayette park sign and your picnic blankets. carina, you've been our playground champion, lafayette park playground sign. >> thank you. (applause) >> why don't you guys say a few words right now. >> okay. the only thing that i want to do is to thank all of you who have been -- hundreds, it took literally hundreds of people to do this. and i have a couple of names to -- we want to make sure we mention these names. but i'm leaving out hundreds of people and i know it. so, and there's plenty more chances. we're going to continue our cleaning and greening days the first saturday of every month, july 13th is our first day but we're not allowed to actually maintain it yet at that point. >> yeah, we are. i already talke

why are you so upset?is is my livelihood, marcus. >> but i'm not trying to take your livelihood away. >> yes. >> i'm trying to save it. >> you seem like you are. without me in mind, you seem like you have an agenda, and that's why... >> here's what my agenda is. my agenda is to save your business. >> i understand that. >> you haven't gotten a paycheck in how long--two years? three years? >> okay. >> okay, you got to let me help. >> i want you to help. >> okay, i'm gonna do it. >> but i want you to understand that i do deserve to be in the sales business. this is me. this is what i do. >> so are you-- >> this is what i've always done. >> are you willing to be coached through that process? >> yes! >> okay. i will give you the support that you need, but you have to not get explosive with me. >> i-- >> and you have to trust that what i'm telling you isn't to hurt you--it's to help you. you really have to believe that. is that a deal? >> yes, absolutely. >> okay, can we shake on that? come on. >> [sniffles] >>

and so that's all. i would pass over that. >> rose: how has the weapon >> rose: how has the web changed the magazine in terms of being able to give it life that you can access so much of it now. >> we sell almost all of our subscriptions off the web site. every week we have 70,000 or 80 people coming to read the stuff we put online. we can put the interviews online everyone can read them for free and hundreds of thousands of people do that a month. so the web's been great for us. but even though what we are doing is putting out a print magazine. without the web we could don't it this way. it's wonderful. >> rose: in what way would we be lesser without "the paris review" today? >> it's the only magazine of a sizable circulation in this country that is devoted entirely completely, wholeheartedly to literature. not to the news, not to criticism. and readers seem to think that we're giving them the state of literature now. so it's not for me to say -- but as a reader that's what i would have missed if i had

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what appeals so much to people? is the kind of show where you take people that are at the peak of their career, cooking the best food in the country and we throw them into this crazy competition and have them fight it out. they have two hours. they cook for 200 people. >> wow, that's impressive. >> you're going to eat with us. >> i love everything you cook. >> 24 hours ago, there was absolutely nothing here. to watch how they turn it into chicken dumpling is unbelievable. >> and everyone will get a taste. >> they'd better. >> so are you excited about the food you'll eat tonight? >> we're so excited. >> they're salivating. so you lovely ladies could be out clubbing in los angeles, but, no, you're here at a pop-up place this downtown los angeles for top chef masters. why, what's going on? >> because it's fun. a wednesday night, why not. >> it's never just what's on the plate. it takes it in all sorts of different directions. >> draw blood. >> where do people get the idea that certain food critics are snobs about food?

so, yes, we are changing systems. change is a little bit difficult for all, but we respect the words that we heard from the people that talked tonight, and abc will have to honor and respect the contract they sign with us or it's not going to be a very happy relationship. so far i have no reason to think otherwise. >> and in your discussion with our counsel, ms. coleman, have you all sort of reasoned out what would happen in the event that during -- sometime during the contract thing didn't work out for the workers, as you said, you have no reason based on all the processes that have happened thus far to think anything would go wrong. but if something did go wrong, have you vetted with legal counsel what steps we would take, if any, at sfusd? >> i don't have the agreement in front of me, which was part of the bid proposal. and i do not know if there is language to that effect. i know that this vendor has stated that they are a union contractor. there were several that bid that were -- i think this one is -- obviously

thank you so much for this honor. it's all about you guys. thank you so much.'d now like to invite the supervisor for district 9, supervisor david campos, to represent the next award. (applause) >> good evening, everyone. welcome to this beautiful building here at city hall, the people's building. and to help me present the next award, i'd like to ask an institution and the portal neighborhood, ruth wallace, if you could please come up. [cheering and applauding] >> it is, it is my honor, our honor to present today what i think is one of the most important ones. every award here is important. but we're recognizing the work of a young person, and i think that any time that we involve young people in this effort you know that not only are you making a difference today, but you're actually making a difference for the future. and on a side note, i'd have to say that i'm very proud as the district 9 supervisor, that includes the portola, because so many of the awards are going to that amazing neighborhood, the portola. [cheering and applauding] >> i think the award h

is the pentagon so much from the outside to survive. so it must fight for survival so and the u.s. will also be found a status so it won't be a cold war it will be a series of hot wars if not. the right confrontation between these two powers ok dan not a very optimistic future what do you think the proposition is china is the same military strength of the united states go ahead well i would disagree with something you said in your introduction which is that the united states is a unilateral power today i think we live today in a world of multilateral power i think we're in a kind of pre-one nine hundred fourteen moment where you have several great powers certainly the united states is that has been the dominant superpower but if you look right now at any place in the world you can see for example that russia can be a check to u.s. power in one place. in other areas and what if i mean i was a little bit about iraq that was very unilateralist. well i don't think so at all i think that we're seeing that there are other powers in the region that are i mean look at the whole you can't j

so, we work on that. the third hiccup occurs because they need a regulatory permit from bcdc, bcdc staff gets 30 days to review such a thing, typically comes back with a list of items that then takes some period of time to be negotiated. a fourth hiccup is the standard indemnification clauses and the city standards for insurance. oftentimes they are very, very difficult for smaller tenants to understand and then get the requisite insurance in place. so, there's any number of places that hiccups do occur because as susan described, unlike the private sector, there are so many places that have impacts. if you add to that that a tenant might want to make tenant improvements, they're not usually knowledgeable of their requirements for historic preservation. so, there is a negotiation around, if you will, moving their vision into something that was acceptable for historic preservation. sometimes they want to have a person per square foot that triggers a requirement for a new bathroom or some other thing that w

so i've had that too, so that's been a real improvement too. >>akira: around my pelvic bones, down through my thighs and knees, it was just horrible. i was in pain so much that especially when i walked, i couldn't walk very much. and i used to curse my doctor because he would not give me a temporary handicap parking permit. every time i went from the car to the pharmacist or to the spa to try to do my swimming exercises i would have to stop half way, lean on somebody else's car and curse my doctor and then go on my way. i couldn't even rake the yard, i would start raking the lychee leaves, before i would finish the pain was so intense that i would just have to throw the rake down and go back in to the house and lie wn. the pain first diminished from my abdominal and intestinal areas and then it gradually went away so that now when i am just resting or sleeping there is absolutely no pain at all. at least i can walk without having to stop. i can go to the spa now and even if i have to park far away from the spa areas i can still walk there. and

so this is the only number that we got so far.as though it did come in a little bit better than expected. this follows a contraction to the tune of 5.6% in the first quarter. joining us now is antonio garcia pasquale of barclays. antonio, thank you so much for joining us today. your instant reaction to the numbers? >> sure. i mean, we have to take the quarterly figures for greece with a pinch of salt because they tend to be quite revised. but as you mentioned already, they did come in a little bit bett better than the market was expecting. when you look at survey indicators, they signal somewhat stabilization. so with respect to for the rest of the year, there's still contraction. and some sort of equilibrium into next year. >> can you actually say for the greek economy that the worst is definitely over, or are there more dangers lurking in the background? as you say, we did see some pretty encouraging signs like the trade beginning to rebalance. we see inventory restocking, but are these just temporary factors? could there be a f

much for coming on julie i thank you so much for having me so first looking very briefly explain what it is that you saw we had very specific alerts that on fourth of july two thousand and four members of al qaeda were planning to cross the borders into the united states using our land borders was mexico which is exactly where i work that the largest and busiest land border crossing in united states which is also a link to the san diego area where most of the nine eleven hijackers had to enter and some of them were. there so we had this specific alerts and on that day i saw that twenty three people from terrorist countries where allowed to enter the united states and none of the proper checks were done they were not enrolled in any databases no one bothered to take their fingerprints they were pretty much just flushed across and no one knew about it when i brought it up to the port director who told me to take it to intel law and behold on this date of special importance everyone in intel was given the day off their door was closed and i reported this to the f.b.i.'s joint terrorism t

so, we must under that. i think many folks say that a lot of these sanctions are a lack of resources. city college lost over $53 million over the past three years and that has taken us from a college that served 110,000 students to a college that serves 85,000 students. there was a statement that said that we didn't review our mission statement for the last four years. well, i just want to say that's false. we didn't review our mission statement, but what we prioritized in our mission statement was access. we said that the person that is getting their ged or getting their esl classes is just as important as a person that's getting their engineering degree or looking to transfer to u.c. berkeley or to stanford. those are our values. these mission statement might not have been to what they liked, but it was an expression of our values as san franciscans that we think everybody dunkelberg -- this should be a campus that's for everybody. and there were comments about our fiscal management that we have to say tha

i thank you so much for having me so much eugene you didn't get an update about where syria's civil war stands right now because it seems like every day more is escalating on the ground well certainly the war as well it could be escalating it's been in a bit of a stalemate recently we saw that yesterday one of the primary rebel groups the free syrian army claimed a victory in aleppo the government is also claiming victory so it certainly seems that what we saw a few months ago where the government was able to turn the tide against the rebels which seemed they were sort of marching inexorably towards big. three that stabilisation has continued with the government at least apparently having the upper hand in the rebels occasionally being able to get certain victories but not changing the strategic equation but with many people of course as you mentioned continuing today. and i think when we hear the term rebels and government really understand all of the different rebel factions there are so many can you break down a little bit about what these factions are which faction is the most promi

and so, in san francisco, across the city, we have 194 recognized green businesses, and they range from small to medium size in a variety of sectors such as the office retail sectors and restaurants and hotels and more, being green makes a big impact here in the city, economically and environmentally. and so, over the course of one year, our greens and businesses have reduced over 36 million pounds of co2 and diverted 1.6 pounds of waste by composting and waters through the greening measures that we asked them for undertake because that makes sense by using less water and less energy you will save those as an environmental impact because if you use this you will have less utility costs and that helps a business's bottom line. >> so with the program, we are there, each step of the way to help the businesses, and some of the direct out reach that we do, to businesses, are through, indepth phone consults and on site visits from january, 2013, to june of 2013, so far we have conducted 32 sfoen co

good reasons to believe so. going back to the issue of. bond markets quantitative easing has been supporting the fed the treasury bond market and that's one of the things i was thinking that while it was a loss of faith in the treasury bond markets that commodities would rise much further than the hat but we'll have to wait and see oh we will have to wait and see we are seeing a bond yields of rise as we wait here and i would ask you one further question about this what do you think is going to be the trigger event that would spike bond yields that would spike this hyper inflation that you're waiting for. it could be anything and i would suspect something trivial because he's a lot of times when you're standing on the very edge of a cliff and it's not like a big close it's an zero it's just a little slip out. of the trivial event if you recall in one thousand. i think that's part and he said it was a little trivial incident that happened in between ukrainian gunships and the u.s. destroyer listen even now confro

i hope so. but i can tell you that many of the people who have received this copy and reread the book have told me that it's still very timely and current and very readable. so i hope we'll find a whole new generation of readers with this edition. >> host: erica jong, author of "fear of flying" and other novels and poetry. 40th anniversary edition of "fear of flying" coming out in october. this is booktv on c-span2. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> the myth of workers buried in hoover dam has to be nevada's greatest myth. and, i would argue, it's an american myth. because since the completion of hoover dam in 1935 to the

so, first is the public hearing. i'm going to call to order the public hearing on the 2012-2013 initial proposal for a successor agreement from laborers international union of north america, liuna, local 261 to san francisco unified school district and the 2012-2013 initial proposal for a successor agreement from the san francisco unified school district to the laborers international union of north america, local 261. there are no speakers on this item. so, i am going to move on to an action item under item l. may i hear a motion and a second on approval of qtea membership appointments? >> [speaker not understood] recommendation. >> i second. >> thank you. mr. ar men trout, may i hear a reading of the recommendation? >> yes, president norton. thank you. again commissioners, superintendent, my name is chris armentraut, director of policy and planning. [speaker not understood] appoints the following individuals for membership to the quality teacher and education act oversight committee. also known as qtea. sam rodrigue

so for. the first show that's an accurate portrayal of lawsuits is probably not the place to be to you have to be woodward terminologies is no i love that stuff that's my that's what i have fun and every time that comes up i feel like i learn a little bit a little bit about the law and i can definitely approach approach cases that are out in the in the public with a little bit i take more interest in them that's trying to understand what's really happening so you know about that was an discovery and toward the. a lot sometimes and yeah but i think there are a few moments in our show where we've even almost changed the u.s. constitution to support a plot line this is where i say we just critics carefully this is a really serious. defend a murderer well that's funny you bring that up in this in the season we're dealing with a case that i think is by far the most serious case we've dealt with which is a big. a woman who owns a big oil company that's what gets wrapped up in a murder case overseas

so bear with me so i talk about biography for a second. born in the ukraine. >> correct. >> rose: your mother was a scientist. your father was a playwright. what a great combination, you know. there is a culture there. there's both sides of your brain have been full of dna from both parents. >> i like to believe so. >> rose: and you had in an interesting way a series of doctors predict that you would not live that much longer because of bronchitis. >> that is true. i'm amazed at your level of information. but that is true. my parents were apparently told several times that this guy is not going to work out for him until about two. and then after two they said maybe five. and then five, maybe seven and after seven they stopped listening to doctors and said he's going to be all right. >> rose: and then they moved to chicago. >> that's right. in 1991 we were finally allowed out of the country. and weeks before the country collapsed. so i left with a red soviet passport and a few weeks later i had a passport to a country that didn't exist any

so, that's what we've got right here. >> so, this neighborhood support center, this doesn't look to be city sponsored fully stocked space. it can be a small commercial space, even somebody's garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. >> that's right. >> thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. and probably be operated by volunteers. >> volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. so, if there is a structural engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. >> here we are with some of the things that you might find in a neighborhood support center. one thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. we say here's a charging station tied up to the generation. the essential coffeepot. >> yes. >> maybe a com

, i'm confused as to what this means so i'm going to bring that up later, so thanks. >> okay, sure. >> alright, so are there any other questions or comments from commissioners? if not, we can open it up to the public comment, and if mission station has any comments? >> so much going on in the mission. >> so, commissioners, i'm sure you're all familiar with the issue of shell space, it goes back many years, our file is very extensive on this place, we could probably write an action movie on all the exciting things that have come out of the space over the years. when the new team came forward and met with us at mission station, i have to admit, we were very excited about moving on in a positive way, moving beyond all the history that has occurred there, that it's been challenging from a public safety perspective, and i believe that this team really wanted to come in and create a new direction. i apologize if i keep referring to them as shell space, is it inner mission? >> yes. >> that being said, i think that what happened was almost immediately we were seeing some of the same activity

so and so there's are being sold through gdss. they will continue to be, so i'm just not sure what the problem is. >> one quick observation. you mentioned chicago. and all these examples we shouldn't ignore there's one airline that doesn't have a whole lot of insular these but doesn't -- southwest. is there going to change in any of these scenarios? >> southwest will have to make its own decisions on how it wants to serve in the future. i would say one thing. a lot of these issues our public it, particularly not deeply in the weeks. one easy way for me to shorthand them is to look at motivation. who are you serving? as an entity in this debate, and because of that what are you trying to accomplish? so if you're looking at two players in this, the two largest players involved in this, you have the airlines working from one set of priorities and get i think travel agents and agencies from a different line. at the end of the day a travel agency does not really care. they're going to have returned business. online travel agency and of